Capitals Insider Archive: Cody Eakin

Evgeny Kuznetsov celebrates his game-winning overtime goal against Team Finland in the quarterfinals. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press) This morning when he arrived at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Alex Ovechkin made sure he found all of his Canadian teammates so that he could raise his arm in the air and celebrate Russia's...

The Caps are off today and so is this blog, for the most part, but here are a few items of interest: *Caps prospect Cody Eakin was invited to try out for Team Canada ahead of the 2011 World Junior Hockey Championships in Buffalo. The Caps drafted Eakin, 19, in...

(Photo by Joel Richardson/The Washington Post) Cody Eakin may have had a terrific training camp and pushed some veterans for roster spots, but because the Capitals are currently a team with a lot of depth at forward, it only made sense for the team to return the 19-year-old center to...